The best delicatessens Biarritz/Miarritze

Pierre Oteiza products "breathe" the Basque Country and its unique know-how. A signature that is multiplying its presence in France with 10 boutiques, including 2 in Paris and 1 in Bordeaux, not to mention numerous partner delicatessens. In Biarritz, as in the other stores near the Gare du Midi, you'll find the full range of products, made from the famous Basque pork from Les Aldudes. These are the region's flagship cured meats. And don't leave without tasting hams, sausages, chorizos, cheeses, etc., and a gourmet basket.

Avenue de Verdun in Biarritz is gradually becoming the avenue for gourmets and other gourmands! Fromagerie Les Affinées, now established, is part of the seraglio. José Luis and his team of professionals offer cheese favourites of the moment and French nuggets to whet your taste buds. More than 100 local products and artisanal skills are on display, not forgetting the inevitable charcuterie such as Iberian ham, and regional wines to accompany your "apéro plage" plate or your mixed platter to share.

Maison Arostéguy is France's oldest grocery store, and a regular on tour operators' lists. This family saga (1875) offers the finest products from the Basque country and... from all 5 continents. Caviar, preserves, cheeses, spices, condiments, teas, coffees, oils, cookies, pasta and rice, wines, beers... but also almost 2,500 references of whisky await you. Pierre Arostéguy travels the globe to unearth unexpected references. The Maison can be visited like a museum... A museum for the eyes and the perfumes of home.

Some evoke the Docks of the Negress, others prefer the Docks. It is in any case a neighborhood which developed in little time, in quite good manner, in a qualitative spirit, with a great diversity of shops. In addition to the spaces dedicated to decoration, in particular, shops proposing the trades of mouth, settled, giving the visitors and very quickly the guests become faithful, a rare panel to make their races. Fish shop with the butcher via the porkbutcher, the pastry chef, the greengrocer... With a huge free parking, which more is. And if one wants to be posed before or after the races, a café or a drink could be taken, in the new bar whereas in the middle same of this unit, of the restaurants also invite you to install you for pleasant gourmet breaks. Some examples:

La Criée des Docks fish shop.

Open Tuesday to Saturday and Sunday in season

This fish shop offers fish of high-quality and products fine and fresh on the display "caterer". For Lauréant Paean, the choice of fish is particularly crucial, it is provided only at addresses of confidence which enable him to always propose a wide range of fish and shellfishes of a freshness and perfect quality. One finds there in particular delicious tuna blue fin, ideal to prepare sushi, hake for recipes plus "local", of salmon, oysters, the prawns, etc To that is added, all the catches quotidennes, in fact beautiful lucky finds expect you. You will have water with the mouth of it, especially when you see what the chef proposes in cooked dishes: paella house, lasagnas with salmon, cod dish brandade, hake marinated lemon-yellow thyme, piquillos stuffed made on the spot... Impossible to resist! Laurent is also very attentive with his clientele and does not hesitate to exchange several minutes with you in order to find the product perfect which will be appropriate for your needs. Very a nice address pleasure.

✆ 05 59 24 59 72

Aubard. Even image, even implication of this company in the shop with the Docks of the Negress that in Bayonne, the head office! And which good initiative to have brought in this neighborhood under development full, in particular as regards products of mouth, this important panel of gourmet products. With the sale the excellent produce of the house, the impossible to circumvent Bayonne ham, the featured product of the house, slices of lomo, the signed fresh ingredients Aubard but also pâté, cooked dishes which evolve unceasingly, Basque piperade, will chipirons with American, axoa, joint of pork in frost, etc Without forgetting some products of actors of the vintage, of jams, cheeses of the country... A superb panel supplemented by the sale of fresh pork of Kintoa, completely single since it is only in the region but also in France to propose the famous pork of Aldudes. Very professional and charming reception of all the family linked around quality and the regularity. Buffets and tapas too.

✆ 05 59 47 27 46

Negress & Co. In this restaurant, the team packs itself every year. Last year, one had become acquainted with the owners, Pauline and Eric Astabie and of the chef, Anthony Labonne, this year it is Philippe of the Loge which invested the bar and the room with a certain dynamism. With him you will be informed of the daily specials and the dishes on offer to the à la carte, of the dishes which continue to allure: the Pot of the chef: ceps, foie gras and egg is always there -- original and delicious --, Semi Foie gras cooked with the wine and spices, roast camembert ...... Chipirons with tomato confits, basil and rices, Saint Jacques poêlées with lemon-flavoured butter, Fillet of coalfish, risotto -- Very well -- Laugh at lamb to Oporto, apples door mat and spring vegetables, Beef tartare half-compartment with the knife... At the dessert, Millefeuille with the seasonal fruits, Gourmet coffee... Good mood and relaxation are the main idea of this place which can be prided to accommodate in this neighborhood extremely living more and more on accustomed. Within an authentic setting, the stone and wood disputing the space in quite good manner with this contemporary touch, of the animated black tables of sets of kraft paper table, surrounded by comfortable banquettes of leather and small armchairs of red leather or mole, not far from an adorable more intimate little place with the white walls than illuminate tryptique coloured.